We’re mildly high on Orberry, a variation of the venerable Martini that we made and consumed not too long ago. So we can’t even remember how we stumbled upon the English film In Bruges that we watched yesterday. In any case, we’ve spent the better part of today hurling choice epithets at ourselves for not […]
Is this the end of an era or what? Today, at the close of trading Apple vaulted ahead of Microsoft in market capitalization. Here, see the below numbers to peer into the future: By the way, it beats us as to why Steve Ballmer has not been fired yet. Ballmer has been head honcho of […]
We know that India cannot have a free government. But she can have the next best thing: a firm and impartial despotism. – Our favorite essayist Thomas Babington Macaulay (in a letter to the Scottish philosopher James Mill in 1833, a year before Macaulay arrived in Madras) Source: New Yorker P.76, May 31, 2010
In these hot May days when the mercury soars and our spirits plummet, tis’ time for some nice spirits to get us into the mood for more writing. A few minutes back, we tried this variation of the Martini that we’ll call Orberry. 1. Pour freshly squeezed sweet Orange juice into a tall glass till […]
Market Capitalization and Share Price of the three major IT/Digital Media companies at 11:38AM Eastern Time today: * Google – $154.98 billion; $486.63 (Business: Search, Android software for phones) * Apple – $227.96 billion; $250.49 (Business: PCs i.e. Macs, digital media devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad et al) * Microsoft – $229.61 billion; $26.20 (Business: […]
IBM today announced six employees as IBM Fellows for their contributions to the company and the IT industry. And guess what? Two of the six are desis: Subramanian Iyer and Anant Jhingran. IBM Fellows is the IT giant’s highest technical award. Only 217 individuals have earned this honor in the company’s history. Including the newly named […]